If you liked
Books like The Land of Little Rain
Loved The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from nature & environment, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Silent Spring
The book that exposed the cost of pesticides and helped launch the environmental movement; calm and devastating.
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2
The Sixth Extinction
The mass extinction unfolding now, reported from the field; sobering, clear and Pulitzer-winning.
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3
Journal
The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau{u2019}s voluminou
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Wherein Elnora goes to high school and learns many lessons not found in her books
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Mother West Wind's children
Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
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My first summer in the Sierra
Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author
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The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt.
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The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatmen
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The story of my heart
While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jeffe
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The expression of emotions in man and animals
Many works have been written on Expression, but a greater number on Physiognomy, - that is, on the recognition of character through the study of the permanent form of the features. With this latter su